I am enjoying some time off this week and mike philpott and I had a day at grafham on Tuesday. Mike was there last week and with some local info we were looking forward to some good sport.
It was an interesting day and a true fisherman's day with fish rising most of the time but challenging to catch. There were fish rising on a consistent basis and they were around all day.
We started on a floater and slow glass with a cats whisker, snail and buzzer patterns. The fish were not jumping on too frequently but we had sufficient takes and follows to keep our interest and I had manged to winkle a couple out on a small cats whisker. We were both convinced that when you had the right fly on they would be easy but it didn't seem to come true. We had had many theories in the boat around what they were feeding on and were not convinced around was it fry, snails or buzzers?
Well the first fish I had put pay to that and when I spooned it, it had snails for starters, a big fry for main and some big juicy buzzers for desert. A real three course meal!
We were keeping an eye on the boat next to us and one guy seemed to be on dry's, a klinkerhammer as it turned out, he had a few and must have been one of the best for the day. I managed to get a few rises to a ginger hopper but they were not really that keen. After another good think I put on the big black buzzers and off we went. Mike was more comfortable on the buzzers and with a cat on the point we were off and running. We fished most of the day to the left of the lodge and by the nature reserve and finished out the front of the fishing harbour.
With 7 fish between us we felt that we had done the best we could and with the fish feeding all day not only did they have a 3 course meal but they must of been at an eat as much as you like restaurant!
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